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The Personal History Statement form is the most complex form in POBITS because everything on a typical Personal History Statement is mimicked here. Each investigate area is placed on a separate tab which is a logical and usable presentation. The first tab is the Case Handling tab which provides specific case details. All other tabs relate to specific subjects on the Personal History Statement.

Besides the normal Save and Close action buttons, the form has four other action buttons and a drop-down list of reports. The four action buttons are:

Contacts; this displays a list of all persons whom you will likely contact in the course of the investigation, conveniently all in one list.

Questionnaires; this displays a list of all Questionnaires completed on the Candidate. Questionnaires are normally completed by a reference directly in POBITS but may also be completed by the Investigator, for example, in the case of a telephone interview with the Reference.

Red Flags; this displays a single list of all red flags checked by the investigator. This is convenient because the depth of the Personal History Statement can make looking for a previously entered Red Flag a bit of a mouse hunt.

Print PHS; this prints the Personal History Statement as completed by the Candidate. No investigator remarks or notes are included in the printout. This is the same product the Candidate is able to print after completing the information in POBITS. Note that there are slight variances in the printed PHS from the traditional form. For one thing, this is not a form. It is a printout of completed information. The form is in the computer. So there are no prompts. Secondly, it is not necessary, or practical to have continuation sheets. That's an issue with paper that we don't have in POBITS.